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New Data Tool Aims for Transparency in Police Use of Force

California police departments will use platform to record all ‘use of force’ incidents

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Trisha Thadani

Sept. 22, 2016 11:00 a.m. ET

A San Francisco-based group is launching a technological tool to gather data on one of the most contentious issues in America: violent encounters between police officers and civilians.

Bayes Impact, a nonprofit startup that aims to apply data analysis to societal problems, launched a web-based platform Thursday that all California police departments must use to record whenever an officer is involved in a “use of force” incident,...